South America – Guyana
Bernie Grant (1944-2000)
Born on the 17th of February 1944 in Georgetown, Guyana, Bernie Grant was elected to the British House of Commons...
Eric Walrond (1898-1966)
Eric Walrond was an Afro-Caribbean-American fiction writer and journalist of the Harlem Renaissance era. Born December 18, 1898, in Georgetown,...
Walter Rodney (1942-1979)
Walter Rodney, one of the most important Guyanese intellectual and political figures of the 20th Century, was born on March...
Blaise Diagne (1872-1934)
Galaye M’baye Diagne, the first African elected at the French National Assembly and to obtain a post in the French...
Hulan Edwin Jack (1905-1986)
Hulan Edwin Jack was born in 1905 in St. Lucia but migrated with his parents to the United States from...
Harry Baird (1931-2005)
The physical presence that black British actor Harry Baird brought to the movie screen was largely a consequence of the...
Ida Bell Robinson (1891-1946)
Ida Bell Robinson grew up in Pensacola, Florida, the seventh of twelve children born to Robert and Annie Bell. After...
